Sunday, April 18, 2021
EINSTEIN INFELD EVOLUTION
Einstein Infeld, The Evolution of Physics
"...This (Newton's, Galileo's) law of inertia cannot be derived directly from experiment. but only by speculative thinking consistent with observation...." p. 8,9.
One point might be that the law of inertia was as little subject, experimentally, to verification or falsification, as were the law of gravity, or the identity of inertial mass with gravitational mass, but rather that they all were more in the nature of thought experiments than to counterintuitive surprises resulting from empirical experiments.
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